Citrix Provisioning Server™

Citrix Provisioning Server reduces total cost of ownership and improves both manageability and business agility by Virtualising the workload of a datacentre server’s operating system, applications and configuration and streams the workload on-demand to physical or virtual servers from the network.

Provisioning Server can stream a workload to any server or server farm. Provisioning Server complements existing systems management solutions. It drives even better ROI by giving an existing SMS the additional option of delivering the workload as a service rather than relying on the traditional approach of deploying the workload by repeatedly copying it to every server.


XenDesktop™

For IT organisations, desktop management today is manual, time-consuming and expensive. Ensuring data security and regulatory compliance is complex when desktops are distributed around the globe. And business continuity is difficult to implement when users are tied to their physical PCs. For users, the longer they have to keep their PCs, the more the performance degrades. The alternative is to replace or re-image the machines, meaning disruptions and loss of productivity.

Desktop virtualisation technology enables the centralisation of desktops in the datacentre, which makes them easier to secure and backup. However, many of the same lifecycle management issues persist – IT still needs to manage, maintain and update each virtual desktop image, along with all its installed apps and user settings. In addition, desktop virtualisation can create new challenges – most notably, degraded user experience over networks and the high costs of networked storage needed for each user’s desktop image.